[-] FinnFooted@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Those people already aren't paying taxes on tips. When I waitressed, I reported all of my tips and ended up owing so much at tax season. When I complained, everyone asked me why I was reporting my tips.

[-] FinnFooted@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

I'm far left. Anti capitalist. Anti authoritarian. But, there are groups on the left or masking of leftists very heavily pushing people not to vote for joe biden in the upcoming elections. They, whether real leftists or not, are not just protesting. I don't love joe biden. I didn't even vote for him the first time. I knew he would win my state and voted 3rd party. But mass rhetoric to protest vote for no one or someone else risks leaving us with donald trump.

[-] FinnFooted@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

If they actually cared, they would take the time to understand the actual situation and realize that puberty blockers aren't experimental or dangerous.

[-] FinnFooted@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I mean... He tocuhed a door knob and didn't know it was a crime scene to report.

[-] FinnFooted@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The us literally distributed religious texts to extremists to encourage them to hate outsiders because communists were the outsiders we wanted them to push out at the time:

CIA and State Department have been criticized for publishing textbooks intended to indoctrinate children with racism and hatred towards foreigners and towards non-muslim Afghans.

In an effort to aid the anti-Soviet insurgency and inculcate a hatred of foreign invaders in Afghan children, the US government covertly distributed schoolbooks which promoted militant Islamic teachings and included images of weapons and soldiers. The Taliban used the American textbooks but they scratched out the images of human faces which were contained in them in keeping with their strict aniconistic and fundamentalist interpretation of Islam. The United States Agency for International Development gave millions of dollars to the University of Nebraska at Omaha in the 1980s and the university used the money to fund the writing and the publishing of the textbooks in local languages.

To be fair, this was in Pakistan and Afghanistan and I know less about Iran. But, yeah. "The west" 100% encouraged this behavior. And we backed mujahedeen extremist warlords in Afghanistan all the way until we pulled out.

[-] FinnFooted@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah. This is how I live life. I don't create demand for meat. But I'm not vegetarian.

[-] FinnFooted@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

You can be Muslim (a religion), Arab (an ethnicity), and French (a nationality) all at once...

[-] FinnFooted@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I'm curious as to how they even define and abaya. Like... Other than being a loose fitting dress made of a square piece of cloth, theres not much to define it. Dresses that fit the description are also worn by "westerners."

[-] FinnFooted@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

you know this infographic isn't literally talking about trees, right?

[-] FinnFooted@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

What a great way to justify never improving things.

[-] FinnFooted@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Society needs to codify these rules into law though otherwise bad actors break those rules. When a right wing activist supreme court removes these protections, people get hurt. But, a store like this isnt doing this to hurt people, it's to make a statement that the far-rights own discrimination can backfire on them. It's a form of protest and a statement, not true bigotry. Its like using the flying spaghetti monster tactic to push legislation to be more strict on religion. These people are trying ro show that regulation on business to prevent denying goods and services is important for everyone, not just minorities the the right hates.

[-] FinnFooted@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cis and trans are terms that came before their application to gender identity. I learned themin organic chemistry in reference to chemical isomers.

Wikipedia: The prefixes "cis" and "trans" are from Latin: "this side of" and "the other side of", respectively.

As applied to gender, "this side of" you are the gender of the sex you were born as. "The other side of" means you have switched your gender to the other side of the sex from which you were born.

Edit: to answer your question more directly, your gender is cis or trans of the sex you were born as. The question you ask for is: "is your gender cis or trans of your sex?"

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